This year’s Big Ideas student innovation contest features nine categories, including the newly extended Energy & Resource Alternatives category, sponsored by the UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative.

Food activist and scholars are among 10 honored for their work elevating the human experience.

For more than three decades, Lipson has been intimately involved with the organic movement; he has recently returned to his roots at UC Santa Cruz, serving as a research associate with UCSC’s Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.

UC Santa Barbara anthropologist explores cattle raising, deforestation and ongoing tensions between conservation and development in the Amazon.

UC Merced lab spurs students' use of technology to serve agriculture, environment, health.

Center —one of only 12 nationwide – will support and facilitate studies on obesity, nutrition and metabolism at UCSF and across Northern California.

Q&A with Amrita Hazra, who leads UC Berkeley's Millet Project team, with a Berkeley Food Institute seed grant and support from the UC Global Food Initiative's CLEAR subcommittee.

A mainly UC Riverside group of researchers improves a resource used worldwide.

To help farmers make the best use of the water they have available, a series of new and updated drought tips fact sheets has been developed by UC Agriculture and Natural Resources scientists and funded by the California Department of Water Resources.  

A new general consumer-resource model spans the mathematics of a century's worth of food web models and provides a common foundation for new food webs.

Mark Lipson's career has taken him from Santa Cruz to Washington, D.C., and back again, now as a research associate with UC Santa Cruz's Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.

Pet leads UCLA Anderson grad to idea for business that sells nutritious food for dogs and cats.